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Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by cogman10 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:32AM (#50380383)
The kernel has also been removing a bunch of old unmaintained drivers due to these reports.

I have to wonder how many of these 1000 paths are simply dead drivers with security vulnerabilities [1]. Impossible to exploit because nobody uses it, but easy enough to juice up the numbers of "found" vulnerabilities.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1068928/

Re:Local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux by evan_a_a on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:03PM (#50385121)
All the marketing from OpenAI and Anthropic about "we used the model to find X vulnerabilities in Y" without any technical depth whatsoever, as is customary in the security space, basically boils down to "big number scary. model fix."

I said in another comment that I await the technical writeup of the so-called new techniques that they aren't sharing for "safety reasons" but if history is anything to go on, they will never publish a writeup. They set out to get their headline and that's where the work stops.